Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.